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Build Help for my 8 Year Old Brother

gamma032
By gamma032
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Hi there guys!

My little brother has been saving up for two years for a gaming PC and he finally has enough. He's only 8, but he really wants to start making some YouTube videos. He's planning on playing Minecraft, Terra Tech and Cities: Skylines. He'll only be using Movie Maker to edit, to keep it simple for him. 

His favourite colours are black and red, so I was hoping to keep it at that. We're also on a budget of 1.4k AUD. I hope that this will last him 4-5 years, apart from maybe another drive and another couple sticks of RAM. We won't be overclocking.

I'm also going to donate one of my 270X's I'm currently running on crossfire until the new AMD cards come out this year, then give him the other one. 

Any advice would be appreciated. In particular, I'm not sure how it will cool with two GPU's in there and the Australian summer. 

 

PCPARTPICKER: http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/nPq3f7

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Pretty nice build.

 

I'd personally get a nicer IPS monitor rather than a TN one. Something like this.

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5 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

Pretty nice build.

 

I'd personally get a nicer IPS monitor rather than a TN one. Something like this.

Switched. Didn't really know the difference, had to watch a TechQuckie, seems better though.Thanks!

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Might want to get a cheaper case. What you can do is pick a few cases that, you think are good and then let your little bro, pick the one he likes.

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